On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, James Yonan wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Mathias Sundman wrote:
I have a little feature request.
I use TAP and bridging in many roadwarrior configurations.
I would really like to see what IP address that has been assigned to
which client in the --status file.
There will be a way to do this in beta12. I've added an
--ifconfig-pool-persist option which will periodically output a comma
separated list of <common name>,<IP address> to a file. This is
ostensibly used to persist the ifconfig pool data across daemon
instantiations but could be used for other purposes as well.
That's great! So now that we keep track of the assigned IP address
regardless if we use TUN or TAP, couldn't we quite easily add this to the
CLIENT list output in the status file? It would simplify things to have
all information in one place.
The reason I want this is because I'm working on a "OpenVPN Administrator"
GUI, and would like to list the connected users together with various
information, including the assigned IP address.
How does openvpn work when a client is not a single machine, but a whole
bridged network? Does openvpn hand out multiple IP addresses from
--ifconfig-pool then?
No, --ifconfig-pool is only used to allocate IPs for the actual client
machine which is connecting to the server. If there is a subnet behind
the client, that subnet can be numbered however you wish.
Good, then it's a 1-to-1 relationship between a connecting client and an
assigned IP address.
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